This book focuses on the challenge that Australia faces in transitioning to renewable energy and regenerating its cities via a transformation of its built environment. Both are necessary conditions for low carbon living in the 21st century. This is a global challenge represented by the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and the IPCCs Climate Change program and its focus on mitigation and adaptation. All nations must make significant contributions to this transformation. This book highlights the new knowledge and innovation that has emerged from research projects undertaken in the Co-operative Research Centre for Low Carbon Living between 2012 and 2019 an initiative of the Australian Governments Department of Industry, Science and Technology that is tasked with responding to the UN challenges. Four principal transition pathways were central to the CRC and provide the thematic structure to this volume. They focus on technology, buildings, precinct and city design, and human behaviour and their interactions.
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1 Pathways to Low Carbon Living |
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2 Energy Futures for Australia |
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3 Rooftop Photovoltaics: Distributed Renewable Energy and Storage (or Low-Cost PV Changes Everything) |
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4 Community Owned Renewable Energy: Enabling the Transition Towards Renewable Energy? |
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5 Rethinking Urban Mobility: Unlocking the Benefits of Vehicle Electrification |
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6 Decarbonising Household Energy Use: The Smart Meter Revolution and Beyond |
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Part II Transition to Zero Carbon Buildings |
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7 Assessing Embodied Greenhouse Gas Emissions in the Built Environment |
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8 Transitioning to Net Zero Energy Homes---Learnings from the CRC's High-Performance Housing Living Laboratories |
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9 Decarbonising Commercial Buildings |
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10 The Trajectory to a Net Zero Emissions Built Environment: The Role of Policy and Regulation |
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Part III Regenerating Urban Precincts and Cities |
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11 Sustainable Precincts: Transforming Australian Cities One Neighbourhood at a Time |
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12 Development of Low-Carbon Urban Forms---Concepts, Tools and Scenario Analysis |
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13 Health and the Compact City |
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14 Low Carbon Urban Mobility |
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15 Integrated Urban Water Systems |
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16 Energy Benchmarking for Efficient, Lower Carbon Wastewater Treatment Operations in Australia |
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Juan Pablo Alvarez-Gaitan |
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17 Towards Low-Carbon Urban Metabolism---The Impact of Eliminating Food Waste |
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18 Urban Heat Island Mitigation |
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19 The Performance of Urban Precincts: Towards Integrated Assessment |
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Peter Newton, PhD FASSA, is Research Professor in the Centre for Urban Transitions, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne. Deo Prasad, PhD AO FTSE, is Scientia Professor at the University of New South Wales, Sydney. Alistair Sproul, PhD, is Professor and Head of School of Photovaltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney. Stephen White, PhD, is Energy Efficiency Domain Leader in the Commonwealth Scientific & Industrial Research Organisation in Australia.
